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A Blood Red Morning
Mark Pryor

Henri Lefort Mysteries Book #3

In this unputdownable WWII series, Paris detective Henri Lefort, must solve a complex case when a man is murdered on the policeman's own doorstep.

292 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Christmas Crimes at The Mysterious Bookshop
Otto Penzler (Editor)

Twelve festive crime stories set in New York City’s beloved mystery bookstore.

320 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Dead Sweet
Katrín Júlíusdóttir

When a celebrated government official is found dead after his surprise birthday party, a young police officer uncovers a terrifying world of financial crime, sinister cults and disturbing secret lives. Icelandic politician Katrín Júlíusdóttir's award-winning, breathtaking debut, and first in a chilling series.

239 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Death at the Sign of the Rook
Kate Atkinson

A Jackson Brodie Book #6

The highly anticipated return of "irresistible" (New York Timesprivate eye Jackson Brodie in the newest installment of the bestselling series hailed as "unputdownable" by Time.

307 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

A Death in Cornwall
Daniel Silva

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue.

480 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of Hanukkah Noir
Tod Goldberg (Editor)

Curated by New York Times bestselling author Tod Goldberg, this collection of eleven delightful and twisted Hanukkah capers will entertain you through all eight nights of the Festival of Lights.

291 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Exposure
Ramona Emerson

A Rita Todacheene Novel Book #2

In the follow-up to the National Book Award–longlisted ShutterNavajo forensic photographer Rita Todacheene grapples with a fanatical serial killer—and the ghosts he leaves behind.

279 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Fire with Fire
Candice Fox

A pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop. Four people with everything on the line. What will be left in the ashes of the next 24 hours?

314 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Ghost Cat
Alex Howard

A charming novel for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and How to Stop Time, following a cat through his nine lives in Edinburgh, moving through the ever-changing city and meeting its inhabitants over centuries.

256 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Gilt Frame
Matt Kindt, Margie Kraft Kindt

A classic whodunit murder mystery that spans the globe from Paris to Hawaii to Montenegro as we hustle to keep up with the most unlikely murder-solving duo in the history of murder-solvers.

56 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Golden Age Whodunits
Otto Penzler

In this volume, Edgar Award–winning anthologist Otto Penzler collects some of the finest American whodunits of the era, including household names and welcome rediscoveries. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellery Queen, and Mary Roberts Rinehart are all included, as are Ring Lardner, Melville Davisson Post, and Helen Reilly. The result is a cross section of the whodunit tale in the years that made it a staple in mystery fiction.

406 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series.

421 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Guests
Agnes Ravatn

A married couple borrows a luxurious home on the Norwegian fjords, entangling themselves in a web of lies when they pretend to be the owners. Chilling, darkly funny psychological suspense by the author of The Bird Tribunal.

211 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Guiltless
Viveca Sten

Sandhamn Murders Book #3

The tiny Swedish island of Sandhamn has always been a haven for lawyer Nora Linde. With trouble brewing in her marriage, she finds its comforts more welcome than ever, even in the depths of winter. That is, until her two young sons trip across a severed arm in the woods.

353 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

I Dreamed of Falling
Julia Dahl

In acclaimed author Julia Dahl's new standalone, the death of a young mother triggers an avalanche of secrets in a small Hudson Valley town.

344 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

In Too Deep
Lee Child, Andrew Child

Jack Reacher Book #29

The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.

324 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Karla's Choice
Nick Harkaway

A John le Carré Novel 

An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway

300 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural
Agatha Christie

From the Queen of Suspense, an all-new collection of her spookiest and most sinister stories, including an Agatha Christie story never before published in the USA, "The Wife of Kenite!"

362 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Murder Book
Thomas Perry

An ex-cop takes on a widespread criminal organization targeting Midwestern towns in this "master class in the craft of suspense" (New York Times) from the author of The Old Man.

A Macavity Award Nominee

394 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Not What She Seems
Yasmin Angoe

She left home as the local pariah at twenty-two, but when a family tragedy brings her back, she must confront her tortured past—and a new danger in town that no one seems to understand but her.

390 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Overnight Guest
Heather Gudenkauf

A woman receives an unexpected visitor during a deadly snowstorm in this chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf.

348 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

A Refiner’s Fire
Donna Leon

The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries Book #33. Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a present-day Venetian menace and the ghosts of a heroism that never was.

277 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Resort
Sara Ochs

For readers of Rachel Hawkins and We Were Never Here comes a searing vacation thriller set on a remote island in Thailand following two mysterious women, a charismatic group of expats, and the one murder poised to bring their paradise crashing down.

373 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Rough Pages
Lev AC Rosen

Evander Mills Book #3

Set in atmospheric 1950s San Francisco, Rough Pages asks who is allowed to tell their own stories, and how far would you go to seek out the truth.

257 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Safe Enough
Lee Child

Twenty crime stories by the creator of Jack Reacher, never before collected.

237 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Seventh Floor
David McCloskey

Six CIA officers. Dear friends and cherished enemies. For a quarter century they have stolen other people’s secrets. Now they must steal each other’s.

387 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Shiver
Allie Reynolds

In this propulsive locked-room thriller debut, a reunion weekend in the French Alps turns deadly when five friends discover that someone has deliberately stranded them at their remote mountaintop resort during a snowstorm.

390 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Talking to Strangers
Fiona Barton

Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who insists on doing her own investigation in this nail-biting mystery from the author of Local Gone Missing.

388 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Tonight You're Dead
Viveca Sten

Sandhamn Murders Book #4

Soon to be divorced, attorney Nora Linde is finding her way as a single mother, and even falling in love again, when she’s asked by her childhood friend Detective Thomas Andreasson to help in a disturbing investigation.

402 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

An Unwanted Guest
Shari Lapena

Another thrilling domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and Not a Happy Family.

New York Times Bestseller

290 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Wordhunter
Stella Sands

An utterly original and compulsively readable detective story about a woman who uses her uncanny ability to analyze words and speech patterns to help solve crimes.

244 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

A World of Hurt
Mindy Mejia

When someone dies to save your life, how do you ever forgive them?

A World of Hurt is Mindy Mejia's highly anticipated follow-up to the “propulsive” USA Today bestselling thriller To Catch a Storm where an Iowa City police officer and a DEA informant must work together to hunt down the remains of a hidden drug empire.

340 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Wrong Hands
Mark Billingham

Detective Miller Novels Book #2

The second rip-roaring mystery from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham starring Detective Miller: unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated...

381 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

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